God) or the progressive transformation of people into full likeness to God, in soul and body, takes

prominence. Regeneration & sanctification is viewed as a part of justification.

- EOC reject the biblical idea (Romans 5) of inherited (imputed) guilt; They believe, rather, that we are

guilty only for our own sins rather as a result of the consequences of Adam's fall.

- EOC unapologeticly hold that they are the one true church of Christ on earth, which alone has guarded

right belief and true worship in absolute identity and unbroken succession with the apostolic church. In

other words, Evangelicals have lapsed from the true faith into error, if not outright heresy, according to Orthodox believers. The salvation of non-Orthodox is, therefore, in question.

- EOC hold to baptismal regeneration - no one can be saved unless he is baptized with water.

- EOC reject Sola Scriptura. Orthodoxy affirms a single source of revelation, holy tradition, of which

Scripture is the preeminent among several forms. The other forms of tradition include the first seven ecumenical councils, patristic writings, especially those of the first four centuries; later councils; icons; the Liturgy; and canon law. The Protestant view which raises Scripture above tradition as final authority in

matters of doctrine is considered by Orthodox as the sin of the Reformation.